The Family Foraging Kitchen C.I.C.

Join our apiarist, Robbie Ryder, in this fantastic introduction to beekeeping course. We have long been passionate about the importance of bees and their general brilliance, and this course allows us to share our excitement. Learn how to get started with keeping bees and about their care, getting up close and personal with hives to learn everything you need to know about keeping your own! This course takes place at our Horsepool Apiary between 10am and 3pm. All essential equipment will be supplied and we simply advise that you dress...

Join our apiarist, Robbie Ryder, in this fantastic introduction to beekeeping course. We have long been passionate about the importance of bees and their general brilliance, and this course allows us to share our excitement. Learn how to get started with keeping bees and about their care, getting up close and personal with hives to learn everything you need to know about keeping your own! This course takes place at our Horsepool Apiary between 10am and 3pm. All essential equipment will be supplied and we simply advise that you dress...

Dry stone walling is a wonderfully satisfying and historically important heritage craft that has survived across generations for its great number of benefits. Join tutor, Robbie Ryder, for a day of learning, building stone walls at a relaxed pace, using only a few hand tools and without the aid of cement or mortar. In addition to this course taking place at our lovely Cornish apiary, many find the activity to be incredibly theraputic, as well as finding immense satisfaction in learning a new skill that can be taken anywhere. This...

Walking at a gentle pace upon a variety of easy terrains, we’ll explore the beautiful Rame Peninsula in SE Cornwall, learning the wild plants and seaweeds that can be used for food and medicines. Each walk includes a cookery class or medicines workshop. If you’ve children or grandchildren, under the age of sixteen, bring them alongfor free and share a knowledge and adventure. See the webpage or date and location specifics.

Walking at a gentle pace upon a variety of easy terrain, you will explore the beautiful Wacker Quay in Cornwall with our expert forager, Vix Hill-Ryder, learning all about the wild plants growing along the esturay, hedgerow, and woodland of spring that can be used for food and medicines. Our goal is to give you the knowledge and confidence to begin roaming these areas yourself, returning home with a bounty of delicious and nutritious foods and flavours.

Seaweed is one of the most fascinating foods we have all across our shore and, yet, it remains alien to many of our diets. We believe this should change! This course will take you across the beautiful Whitsand Bay, teaching you how to identify, harvest, and cook the amazing wild foods available right out of the sea. Our head forager, Vix, will guide you at a pleasant pace from rock pools to the beach, sharing her passion and knowledge of the hundreds of seaweeds that appear, before setting up for...

Come and learn the traditional craft of skep-making on the beautiful Horsepool Apiary on the Antony Estate in SE Cornwall. A skep is a traditional straw or reed bee-hive, one traditionally made with local grown straw and rushes. Our expert skep-maker, Robbie, will talk you through the history of this beautiful traditional craft, while teaching you everything you need to know to begin making your own. You will be provided with enough straw and bindings to complete your own skep, and, if you don't complete it on the day, you...

To continue a foraging education during lockdown, the Family Foraging Kitchen team have created online wild food mentoring sessions! Each session is one-on-one with our foraging expert, Vix Hill-Ryder, held via Zoom and arranged to suit your schedule. Sessions can support those starting out, discussing fundamental foraging practices and wild food identification or, alternatively, they can be offered at a higher level, catering to already confident foragers who have more specific and detailed questions. While sessions work well as part of a long-term and ongoing learning schedule, we can also...